608 Checking on Friends in New York and Italy; Lessons From Nature

Published: July 18, 2020, midnight

As a summer close-to-home unfolds, Rick checks in with friends in New York and Italy: Cultural maven Fred Plotkin tells us how he's used the downtime to start new projects,\u202fand tour guides from Rome, Venice, and Siena describe what their cities' gradual re-openings have meant to them.\u202fPlus, nature writer Gary Ferguson shares eight master lessons Mother Nature wants to teach us.

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